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Thursday, August 7, 2008

Google Street view is way too addictive

They launched in Tokyo the other day and I have had so much fun visiting all my fave places. Well all that are accessible on the map so far.

View Larger MapThis is my old street in Tokyo. Small isn't it? My house is up on the left, kinda opposite the stairs on the right. The stairs on the right are what I used to park my bicycle under.

View Larger MapThis is the local shrine just near my house. In Spring it is so beautiful because of the cherry blossom trees.

View Larger MapThese are some traffic wardens with a completely useless job as really there is no traffic. Japan is full of these jobs that don't exist in other countries.

View Larger MapLocal discount store Donquijote's with the kawaii carpark attendants out the front. Donkies is AMAZING, bicycles are $100 or less, most food is $1, there is everything you can imagine from sex toys to chanel handbags (real) and homewares all for cheap!

View Larger MapMy work in Shinjuku. Its the place with the shut roller doors and no signs. Nova went bankrupt just as I left so it's no longer there. If you spin around you can see the huge intersection and Lumine department store.

View Larger MapThis is the other Nova I sometimes worked at in Shinjuku. The signs are still up for some reason.

View Larger MapThe Comme Ca Store in Shinjuku which was one of my fave shops in Tokyo. It's kinda like muji I guess, just very minimal but also really cheap.

View Larger MapThe intersection of Omotesando Dori. You can see Laforet Department store which is the best department store in the world if you ask me....but that's because it's not like a department store you have ever seen before. Think Myer's Basement but 100 million times better. Opposite is The Gap store which is where all the Fruits photos and other street photos are taken on the steps out the front.

View Larger MapTower Records in Shibuya, one of my fave places because of the huge selection of English magazines.

View Larger MapYou know how Melbourne has secret hide away clubs? Well try to work out where the entrance is to the BEST club in Tokyo and also one of the best vintage stores Trump Vintage and Nude Trump Room...Well do you see the Coke vending machine, well you go down the stairs to the left in that brown building and then up some stairs and voila you are in a hipsters PARADISE of deer heads and chandeliers.

That's all for now. There is also Google Street View Australia which has been fun too, but not as fun as Tokyo, lol.

11 comments:

I've been totally transfixed with Google Street View since the launch. It amazes me that there's pictures of my house that look as good as they would if I went out into my front yard and took a picture! It's awesome but at the same time slightly creepy.

Donquijotes!! I loved that place!!! I spent hours there just looking at stuff. I almost got a cupcake shaped cat house for Grechiemon, my kitty, but then realised I was already way over my luggage limit and had no way to get it home!

It's nice to see all the places you talk about in Tokyo! I love google street view too. It makes me miss home a whole bunch more tho!